u/FootOfDavros

Hi Folks. Hopefully this will be the right place to raise this question and maybe get some advice from anyone with more experience of cats than our own:-

I'd say about two and half weeks ago now we had another cat coming in through our cat flap late one night. I was sitting at our kitchen table and turned around expecting to be our cat. Anyway, it wasn't and when he saw me he shot straight back out!

Couple of night later, I heard some really loud crunching coming from the kitchen, went through to see it was this other cat. Again, it ran off out when he saw me. This was repeated the following night but with my partner getting up and seeing him instead of me.

Anyway, maybe a day or two later, I saw the cat outside again, managed to get a photo and posted on a local social media asking if anyone knew the cat or had seen one reported missing. No response other than a few likes for the cat's picture.

Another day or two passes and the cat is in our garden again. I took out a few dreamies and managed to give it a bit of a pat, calm him down and get a photo of his details on his collar.

Turns out the address is quite far away - over half a mile but maybe not out width the distance cats can travel (as far as I've read). So I texted the number on the collar with a friendly message along the lines of - Hi there, just wanted to let you know your cat is here and we've seen him a lot over the past few days and haven't seen him before so we were worried he'd maybe lost his way home, kind regards...

We got no reply from that though - not even an acknowledgement or a "thanks, he's okay, he does tend to travel a bit..." Just nothing...

Another day goes by and the cat is still hanging around our house. I'm starting to think he's looking thin and worried he's hungry, so give him a bowl of dry food which he gobbled up. Later that day - still having no response to the text - we walk down to the address (worrying that maybe it was an old number on the tag or something). No one home but we speak to a neighbour who tells us the cat has been very ill and the owners will be worried about him. I leave my number with the neighbour and hear him leaving a voice message with them.

Great I think. But then we still here nothing back from them!

... And then finally a response! Not to my text or via the number I left with the neighbour but to the original social media request I'd posted. Just saying something along the lines of - Hey that's our cat, didn't realise he was travelling so far!

And that's been it. Nearly a week has past now since my text message to the collar number and 4/5 days since this partial response. The situation is unchanged though - the cat came in to our house again last night and was sitting in our garden looking for food this afternoon...

So just wondered what folks thoughts on this are?

This isn't a young cat. We'd never seen it ever before it appeared ~ two and half weeks ago. It lives over half a mile away, not even on the same road and must be passing maybe about fifty houses minimum and roads to get here! The cat has been very ill, very recently.

I know cats can travel pretty big distances but is it even conceivable a cat would still be going home on a daily basis, then travelling over half a mile away & passing dozens of houses and consistently looking for food at one other location? And a sick cat at that?

And would you just ignore messages from someone telling you they'd found your cat and were concerned for them? I know for sure that if it was our cat - especially if they'd been sick - who'd disappeared, we'd be so happy to hear from someone and would be at their location looking frantically for the cat.

Sorry for the long post but would really appreciate any thoughts on the situation.

Hi Folks

We've been having something of a nightmare over the past few months with near constant noise from the semi-detatched property next door which is having a full reno - The actual neighbours haven't even moved in yet (well except for earlier morning weekends, when they've taken it upon themselves to augment the noise with whatever DIY they can be doing first thing in the morning).

Anyway, we were thinking - Well at least with Monday being a bank holiday, we'll get a couple of days to recharge the mental batteries. However, that has not come to pass - Out in the garden earlier, I see the van of the company doing the work pull up, so here we are - another day of drilling and banging to look forward to!

Anyway, my question is - Is this even allowed today? I guess they're doing it anyway and don't give a stuff re the bank holiday situation but what about Edinburgh Council? Is this allowed under city regulations? Anyone dealt with similar problem and know if we should be recording and reporting this? (Not sure if this will really do anything since they're here anyway)